damán allaid

Old Irish

FWOTD – 24 January 2024

Etymology

From damán (“calf, fawn”) +‎ allaid (“wild”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdaβ̃aːn ˈal͈ɨðʲ]

Noun

damán allaid m (genitive damáin allaid)

  1. spider
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d1
      inna ndamán n-allaid [translating aranearum]
      of the spiders

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative damán allaid damán altai damáin altai
vocative damáin allaid damán altai damánu altai
accusative damán n-allaid damán altai damánu altai
genitive damáin allaid damán allaid damán n-allaid
dative damán allaid damánaib altaib damánaib altaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: damhán alla
  • Manx: doo-oallee
  • Scottish Gaelic: damhan-allaidh

Mutation

Mutation of damán allaid
radical lenition nasalization
damán allaid damán allaid
pronounced with /ð-/		 ndamán allaid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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